Here’s another link to Joe’s author page. If you like an author’s post, you can show your appreciation by checking out their books. PG thinks it would be great if Joe’s coloring books could make it to the top of the adult coloring books bestseller list.

In fact this has allowed me to discover a new Kindle semi-scam : it looks like a lot of people are putting “coloring books” ebooks in KDP/KU, with a link to a free PDF at the end of the ebook, so you can “print” the designs. Apparently all pictures are Shuttlestock/free pictures, not originals by those who uploaded the ebook…

Happy to oblige. Here is onehttps://www.amazon.com/dp/1530503981/
2.99 $ for a link to the PDF at the end of the ebook.
And serial reviewer ClassicsGGma DOES take her coloring books seriously ! GO GRANDMA !

Well see, Konrath only intended to write a trilogy. But once he starts making $$$ you just wait — the publisher will insist on milking this baby into the ground. That’s when you’ll see the other shapes.

If folks keep buying it to leave funny reivews, publishers will start thinking there’s money in it and release their own simple shape versions for kindle. The hardcovers at B&N will come bundled with a lipstick…

1. He sees a trend.
2. Twists it around to the obvious ridiculous conclusion.
3. Acts on it.

Respect

As to whether or not anyone would actually buy these: Konrath probably didn’t expect any sales, it was just his commentary. However, the paper version would make a great gag gift, esp. for a writer. So I expect he will sell some copies.

I heard that Preston had his own ACB work-in-progress — Great Writing Shacks of the Western World. He’s planning to spend several years researching the differences between shacks, hovels, shanties, sheds, cabins, and huts — also the differences between Western writing shacks and those found in other cultures. For example, in many parts of the world shacks are primarily located in regions of extreme poverty, while a Great Writing Shack of the Western World is typically found in a neighborhood where the homes go for $1.5 million and up.

“Humour au second degré”, or “humour du second degré”, or “C’est du second degré”.
Badly done, it’s nothing more than evil sarcasm.
Well done, it’s more or less like English humor : subtle, hidden meaning, double entendre .
And “Humour au troisième degré” would be surrealist, absurd humour. But I guess there are as many definitions as people trying to make jokes.